RE: [lwip-users] TCP causing out of mem pool [RAW]

[Bill Auerbach]

Chris, are you using FireFox?  I read somewhere that FireFox opens a
connection for each item on a WEB page, whereas IE doesn't.  I've seen other
people complain that embedded WEB servers can't handle all of the connection
attempts with FireFox.

Bill

>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Chris_S
>Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:41 AM
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>Subject: Re: [lwip-users] TCP causing out of mem pool [RAW]
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>TCP dies after that.  This is a real problem.
>
>I tried changing TCP_MSL from 60000 to 6000,
>and it sure had an effect.  I saw some TCB blocks being reallocated,
>but again after more refreshes it finally crashed the CPU and went to
>restart.
>
>I had KEEPALIVE turned ON, and tried it OFF, still the same.
>
>I noticed an old bug 24830 that seems like the same thing.
>Not fixed yet, says v1.4
>
>I'm just mystified how people get this RAW working with this kind of a
>problem.
>Are there some special settings in lwipopts.h to deal with this?
>Is this something I can bandaid in my HTTPd?    Is that what people do?
>
>Chris.
>
>
>
>
>> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 04:03 -0700, Chris_S wrote:
>> > > > Obviously the TCP PCB is never being freed.
>> > > > So what routine is suppose to do this?
>> > >
>> > > They're probably all in the TIME_WAIT state.  This is correct.
>They'll
>> > > get freed once they leave TIME_WAIT and go to CLOSED.
>> > >
>> > > Kieran
>> >
>> > So when do they go to CLOSED?
>> > I waited minutes and the TCP pile keeps building.
>> > I closed my browser window, opened another,
>> > and the TCP still keeps piling up.
>> >
>> > Not happening.  When do they get freed?
>>
>> 2 * TCP_MSL is the default timeout I think.
>>
>> However, I think we try and recycle PCBs from TIME_WAIT when we try to
>> alloc and there isn't one available.  I wonder if the message you're
>> seeing is just the "I failed to find a free one" and then the
>following
>> line of code gets one from TIME_WAIT and everything is OK.  Do you
>> actually see anything go wrong, or is it just the message that you
>don't
>> like?
>
>
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